Intraosseous ameloblastoma manifesting as an exophytic soft tissue lesion with minimal
bone involvement is rare and its challenging diagnosis. Differential diagnoses and
the relevance of distinguishing between intraosseous ameloblastoma with soft tissue
involvement and peripheral ameloblastoma with bone resorption, as different treatments
apply, are discussed.
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Publication history
Published online: August 17, 2022
Accepted:
August 10,
2022
Received in revised form:
July 26,
2022
Received:
May 16,
2022
Footnotes
A.A.S. Costa and T.S. Tavares contributed equally, and therefore share the first authorship of this paper.
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